Vulkan 1.2.171 is out this morning with several fixes and clarifications to this high performance graphics / compute API specification while there is also a new extension for allowing BlackBerry QNX support.

As reported on Phoronix back in January, BlackBerry was working to bring Vulkan to QNX . That tentative extension reserved back in January, VK_QNX_screen_surface, is now formally added to the Vulkan specification.

VK_QNX_screen_surface is for supporting Vulkan surfaces on QNX, just as there are

The Qt Company is now offering some checks for the Clazy framework to help in porting Qt 5 code to Qt 6 compatibility.

Clazy is KDE's Qt-focused static code analyzer built atop LLVM's Clang. Clazy has been very useful for years in helping KDE/Qt developers discover bugs in their code and also help in some areas with automatic refactoring.

Clazy is now able to help in Qt 6 porting thanks to new checks that detect deprecated API usage, automatically replacing obsolete header paths to new header paths for

While Mesa is most well known for providing OpenGL and Vulkan open-source drivers on Linux systems, via the "Clover" Gallium3D state tracker is also maturing support for OpenCL. But until now it hasn't been straight-forward to track the state of Mesa's OpenCL supported versions and extensions.

Hitting Mesa 21.1-devel this weekend is finally the OpenCL status reporting to the features documentation ( docs/features.txt ). The OpenCL status reporting is done in a similar manner to

ET Legacy 2.77 is out today as the newest version of this open-source game project continuing to advance the open-sourced Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory game from the early 2000's.

See this earlier article should you be unfamiliar with the ET: Legacy open-source game that is continuing to build off the open-source foundation of the original Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. ET Legacy has been one of the exciting community, open-source game efforts to follow in recent years given the

Linus Torvalds issued the first release candidate tonight of Linux 5.12 following an unusual merge window.

As noted last week, the Linux 5.12 merge window was off to a rough start with winter ice storms in the Pacific Northwest causing Linus Torvalds to lose power and thus the first week of the merge window he wasn't able to deal with the new kerne cycle. But ultimately he was able to catch up this week and still get Linux 5.12-rc1 out the door on

There have been plenty of new and updated benchmarks over the course of February ahead of upcoming CPU and GPU launches.

The Phoronix Test Suite and OpenBenchmarking.org is now up to offering 635 unique test profiles / benchmarks with some 2,150+ revisions to those benchmarks over the past decade. February was another busy month adding and updating test profiles as well as shipping the latest Phoronix Test Suite 10.2 point releases for open-source, automated cross-platform benchmarking.

Below is a look

Last week the Linux Mint project shared the troubling news how many of its users are behind on important security updates or in some cases even running end-of-life versions. In trying to help address the issue, Linux Mint is working on improvements to its Update Manager to encourage users to apply updates.

The Linux Mint project posted this morning their February 2021 monthly report. In there they outlined some of the pending Update Manager work to encourage users to update. " In the next release the manager won

Back in March 2019 Xilinx announced they were looking to upstream their Alveo FPGA accelerator drivers into the mainline kernel code. They followed through with posting the initial kernel patches and then fast forward to the end of 2020 they posted a new iteration of the patches . This month the company, which is in the process of being acquired by AMD, posted the third iteration of their open-source Linux kernel driver patches.

The "v3" patches for the Xilinx XRT Alveo driver enablement for these